Biography - Pamela Lucas

Pamela B. Lucas is a retired US Army officer, retiring at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Since 2006, she has been an Adjunct Professor at American Public University (APU), teaching courses in Quarantine, Homeland Security Organizations, and Consequence Management within APU’s School of Public Safety and Health. She also has taught courses in American Government and Environmental Economics in APU’s School of Security and Global Studies.

Since her military retirement, she has worked as a Program Manager for Strategic Engineering Systems, an elite Navy contractor where she serves as Program Manager for the $32M Electro-Optics/Infrared (EOIR) Persistent Surveillance Program in the Office of Naval Research’s Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Department. In this role, she coordinates the Navy’s requirements with Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Honeywell, Boeing, and key Defense Community organizations, including Sandia National Laboratory, the Army Night Vision Laboratory, the Naval Research Laboratory, and the Naval Air Systems Command. She also serves as the program’s budget and financial manager, responsible for planning and executing current and out-year budgetary requirements. Among other achievements, she streamlined the contract award process from 200 to 120 days and identified sources of funding that had previously been unavailable to the program.

Her final US Army assignment was as Program Manager for the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Division. She was directly responsible for managing the relocation of 21,000 personnel and $3B in military construction to Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Prior to this, she was assigned for the second time as a Presidential Communications Officer at the White House Communications Agency. As Chief of its Operations Center, she managed and developed systems that enabled its staff to support the President and his team both in the White House and when they were deployed worldwide. She also served as Training Officer, coordinating, managing and participating in major security exercises.

Previously, she was second in command of a 660-person airborne telecommunications unit based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. There, she also served as Brigade Signal Officer in the Army’s largest Military Intelligence Brigade. During the 1990s, she traveled worldwide as a Presidential Communications Officer in support of the President of the United States. She deployed in support of Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, an 8-month deployment. She also deployed with a Joint Task Force during the Hurricane Hugo Relief mission in St. Croix, Virgin Island. Lieutenant Colonel Lucas was repeatedly selected for key leadership positions in Iraq, Kuwait, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Korea, Russia, Africa, Canada, and across the United States.

Ms. Lucas earned an MS in Administration from Central Michigan University and an MA in National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College, in addition to a BS in Biology from University at North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She is completing the Program Management certification curriculum at the Defense Acquisition University.